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In the fourth installment of this occasional series looking at Roman politics, Coyle and Jordan pick up with the death of Augustus, the problem of succession, and the era of imperial Rome.
Best, worst, and craziest Emperors:
Jordan’s Best: Vespasian
Jordan’s Worst: Nero
Jordan’s Craziest: Caligula
Coyle’s Best: Vespasian
Coyle’s Worst: Claudius
Coyle’s Craziest: Caligula
Books/Readings Mentioned in the Episode:
- Agricola and the Annals by Tacitus
- Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
- Historia Augusta
- Cassius Dio
- Anything by Michael Grant
- Caligula: The Corruption of Power by Anthony Barrett
- Apocolocyntosis and Essays by Seneca
- The Golden Ass by Apuleius
- Dio Chrysostom
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Christianity and Classical Culture by Charles Norris Cochrane
- The Emperors of Rome by David Potter
- Dying Every Day by James Romm
- The Jewish War by Josephus
- Soldiers and Ghosts by J.E. Lendon
- Letters of Pliny
- Defying Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
- Films: Gladiator, Fall of the Roman Empire, I Claudius, Hercules, Cromwell, Pompeii, Eagle of the Ninth, The Eagle, Quo Vadis, The Robe, Masada.